10 thoughts on “NFL player Ben Watson shares his thoughts on the Ferguson decision”

  1. I’ll momentarily refrain from the last section about the religious theme, but do wonder how an NFL player can be termed brilliant for overlooking the intentional and glorified, promoted violence for corporate profit he obviously doesn’t understand his voluntarily servitude in. Willing to attribute BW’s expressions and thoughts to repeated head trauma from an early age. Not faulting him personally in any way.

    Kinda like the voluntary US military service system being the only employment option for far too many in our grand experiment, this democratic republic. Military training and on to the civilian police force. It all ties together in a quite nightmarish scenario.

    1. “Willing to attribute BW’s expressions and thoughts to repeated head trauma from an early age.”

      bahahahahahaha thanks for your diagnosis Dr. non.

  2. nonquixote:

    Mr. Brown was an adult. Mr. Brown was a robber that did so with aggression. Mr. Brown resisted attempts by a uniformed police officer to be subdued. Mr. Brown’s friend and robber #2 is a liar. Mr. Brown was a thug that didn’t deserve to be shot and killed but most certainly did not act in a manner that could have prevented his shooting death. Mr. Wilson acted in a manner that was appropriate given the circustances and situtation that was dealt to him by the bully/thugish behavior of a violent robber (Mr. Brown).

    1. You’ve sufficiently demonstrated your inability to have a single thought beyond your obsessive fixation over the death of Michael Brown and attempting to corral every other comment with your last 10 or so comments to force others into agreement with your view.

      You obviously missed the nuance of the wider point I made about the NFL player himself, rather than MB, here in this comment. You cannot even find the reply button in the comments you seem to be replying to. Nothing in my comment in this thread said anything about Darren Wilson’s guilt or innocence.

      My response to you here, http://bloggingblue.com/2014/11/something-is-profoundly-wrong-here/comment-page-1/#comment-144485 suggesting you write a diary on the subject of unsafe sleeping arrangements for infants was because I too think it very, very important. But look at your accusatory, angry, thoughtless and clueless bitching about what I suggested in support of the points you were making. Your pattern of verbally punching first and still no evidence of thought about what you just said, is unmistakable.

      Sometimes it is better to be thought a fool for keeping your mouth shut, rather than opening it and irrefutably proving it to everyone.

    2. The penalty for robbery should be death? Amazing how you wingers have traveled so far to the right you’ve landed in the space vacated by the Stalinist hard left. Burkean ideas of individual liberty and institutions serving the public are now the merest wisps buried in deep memory. Fear is your master and you obey its every command.

  3. As we listen and read of the opinions of legal scholars, experienced attorneys, and experts on the use of the “grand jury,” including even Scalia, it is obvious that McCulloch, recognized as a very capable prosecutor,knew exactly what he was doing; that is, misusing and corrupting the process to blame the victim and protect Wilson. McCulloch did so not only at this stage, but he established cause or justification for using deadly force by Wilson for future civil and criminal litigation. I would not be surprised if there was coaching of Wilson’s required but greatly tardy written statement. It was brilliantly conceived and applied so that the roles of Wilson and victim were reversed with the aid of the biased prosecutor, McCulloch.

    I am not concerned that Wilson will live happily ever after. The Federal and civil lawsuits will provide some justice, albeit years away. And Wilson’s future life will not not be much of a life.

    I am more concerned that McCulloch will suffer no penalty for his police bias and worse his perverted sense of justice, and that St. Louis County racism, and murders of black youth and men by police will continue as long as there are men such as McCulloch holding public office.

  4. Emma, based on the facts presented, deadly force was warranted. Sorry that you can’t understand that. While you might not like that a criminal masse the wind decision and paid with his life for it, it was still mr browns decision and risk that he chose to take.
    easy to say he went to far (officer Wilson), because you weren’t there, if you were,I suppose you would be a bloodied pulp of death because you would have surrendered to the hulk of a man beating down on you. That is also a choice you are allowed to make

    1. Please go check Wilson’s height and weight. Then take a look at all statements including Wilson’s own words about Brown heading away. Finally, read Burke – or don’t you even know who he is?

    2. chris,

      About that “beatdown.”

      Here are the photos of Officer Wilson after he killed Mike Brown. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/24/darren-wilson-injury-photos_n_6216208.html

      Please point out exactly where and how many times he got hit.

      I see zero evidence of any physical altercation.

      Officer Wilson used poor policing techniques when he let a jaywalker (who was high on pot) get to close to his vehicle. He fired two shots. At that point he clearly realized his career as a police officer was in jeopardy. He got out of his vehicle to murder Mike Brown. He started shooting as Brown was running away. He missed. It’s those misses which probably caused Brown to surrender. Unlike Officer Wilson, he was probably concerned that an innocent bystander would be killed or injured. 14 out of 16 eye witnesses said Brown had his hands up. Officer Wilson didn’t want to arrest Brown. He didn’t want to face the testimony. So he kept shooting.

      Wilson’s weapon, a .40 S&W is a high velocity, high energy round. Each of Brown’s wounds would be traumatic. With four wounds, Brown’s right arm was not reaching for anything in his belt, it was a mangled useless appendage beyond his control. Brown already had eight wounds including, chest, neck, cheek and through his eye when Wilson shot him the last time. How could he have been the threat Wilson described, a charging monster on a rampage to destroy him, when he fired that last shot?

      You explain the 153 feet between Brown and Officer Wilson’s SUV. You explain those last ten shots.

      “The Ferguson Lie,” is an excellent account of how D.A. McCulloch manipulated the grand jury into its decision. http://blog.simplejustice.us/2014/11/25/the-ferguson-lie/

      We don’t know how the 12 jurors voted. It may be that only three/four voted against indicting Officer Wilson. When it deals with law a enforcement shooting in Missouri, that’s all it takes.

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